Word: millers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came the dress rehearsal. Luckily (at Wood's suggestion, I think) the audience was small. Only Wood, Leslie Howard, Producer Gilbert Miller and I knew what was coming. A scream from the blackened stage indicated a time relapse of 145 years. The Wood subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque...
Even now I draw a veil over what followed; there weren't enough people there for a proper panic; I chiefly remember Gilbert Miller's stentorian voice from the centre of the stalls demanding that so-and-so (the organ pipe, not Wood) be instantly thrown out; there were also comments reflecting upon Professor Wood and myself...
...like an effort to foist etherized Hitlerism. With this parting blast at Government-in-Radio, Temporary President Ethridge retired to devote all his time to running the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times and Station WHAS. Appointed to succeed him as mouthpiece of the industry was another Louisvillian: Neville Miller, 44, who gained national prominence as mayor of the city during the 1937 flood, has served lately as assistant to President Harold Willis Dodds of Princeton. His new salary...
...American literature. Professor Jones will give a course on 20th century American Literature the second-half year, instead of one on American literature since 1870. Of the four conference group courses numbered 170, 170a is most recommended; although somewhat elementary, Murdock is good on the American novel to 1900. Miller on the American Drama in "d" should be excellent. Those in the field think a conference group on Southern literature is needed...
Beside supporting Watt next fall, the League will probably back New-Dealer Thomas H. Eliot '28, lecturer on Government, in a campaign for Congress from the ninth Massachusetts district. Charles Miller, progressive Republican State Congressman from Dorchester, may also receive League support...